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Entries from March 2011

GoogleMeh

March 31st, 2011 ·

If +1 is the equivalent of “Like”, then +0 is the equivalent of “Meh”.

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Tags: Amusements

March 3rd, 2011 ·

A few years ago I worked on a coupons project at Google, and I ended up getting on a mailing list from the Food Marketing Institute in order to understand manufacturer’s coupons. The email they still send me is pretty funny.

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Tags: Amusements · The internet

You can’t make this stuff up

March 1st, 2011 ·

I suppose they are related…

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Tags: Amusements · The internet

Experimenting with comments

March 1st, 2011 ·

When I first set up my blog at sigcrap I enabled comments on the site. This quickly became a pain in the ass, so I ended up disabling the feature. The whole point of social media is to encourage discussion, but it was simply too annoying to moderate comments. Later on I imported the RSS [...]

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Tags: The internet

Shaking down science

March 1st, 2011 ·

Matt Blaze’s blog is always interesting, but he hits the nail squarely on the head with this one. It even gave me the inspiration for my blog. http://www.crypto.com/blog/copywrongs/.

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Tags: Economics · Research